- Infertility can happen to anyone.. at all ages
- Struggling with infertility actually has made me a stronger person
- Patience
- Sometimes no matter how hard you try to, you can't control what happens in life
- To appreciate what I have and to not take for granted my family
- To put things in perspective
- Sometimes doctors don't have all the answers
- There is still so much unknown about infertility
- Infertility affects LOTS of people
- Insurance coverage needs to be changed to include infertility diagnosis & treatment
- That the emotional pain is so much worse than the needles (even the huge ones for progesterone-ouchie!)
- What sacrifice really is
- That once you have dealt with loss and IF, you never are worry free even when you do get pregnant
- Lots of new terminology like follicles, estrogen, FSH, progesterone, LH, cysts
- To not look too far in the future..sometimes minute by minute, hour by hour and day but day is good enough!
- I need support from others.. I can't do it on my own (added 8/31)
My hope is that through research, advances in medicine will help more and more women realize their dreams.... but I have to say infertility taught me a lot of lessons in life that I probably would have never known.
Love your lessons learned! I would have to agree that I have also sadly learned most of those lessons the hard way through infertility struggles and loss, thankfully though I do feel that in that way infertility has made me a better person. Welcome to the IF blogosphere, you've got yourself another follower thanks to LFCA:)
ReplyDeleteRebecca,
ReplyDeleteI am so glad that you found me. I guess it goes with anything else in life, the most memorable events and valuable lessons are from the toughest obstacles that we face.
Thanks for stopping by my blog. :) That means alot to me!
ReplyDeleteI have learned that NO ONE will understand what your going through or how you really feel unless they have went through it themselves.